How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Passing under the thatched barbette over the front door, Dixon averted his eyes from a picture Welch had recently bought and talked about and which now hung in the hall. The work of some kindergarten oaf, it recalled in its technique the sort of drawing found in male lavatories, though its subject, an assortment of barrel-bodied animals debouching from the ark, was of narrower appeal. (18.21)
In two sentences, Amis manages to satirize Welch's taste in art, religious motifs, children, drawings on the wall in men's bathrooms, and barbettes (whatever they are).